President Orders Prosecutor's Office To Focus On Illegal Licensing

BETWEEN/HO-BPMI Presidential Secretariat

JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto ordered Attorney General, ST Burhanuddin, and all young attorney generals to focus on cracking down on various cases of illegal licensing because it becomes a gap in state losses and hinders national development agendas.

In a limited meeting at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, Monday, January 13, Prabowo reminded the officials of the Prosecutor's Office that corrupt practices often occur in the licensing sector.

"The president considers that unauthorized licensing is one of the loopholes that is often used for the personal and certain groups' interests so that it has an impact on state losses," said the official broadcast of the Press, Media and Information Bureau (BPMI) of the Presidential Secretariat explaining the contents of his meeting and the ranks of high-ranking officials of the Attorney General's Office which took place behind closed doors today as reported by ANTARA.

Therefore, the President again emphasized the ranks of the Attorney General's Office to accelerate the investigation and prosecution of various cases of illegal licensing that are currently running.

Then, he also ordered officials from the Prosecutor's Office and other institutional leaders to strengthen the supervisory system in government agencies. He wants to ensure that all licensing procedures in government agencies run transparently and in accordance with applicable legal regulations.

A limited meeting between the President, the Attorney General, and the ranks of the young attorney general lasted for approximately 2 hours. During the meeting, there was also the Head of the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center, Ivan Yustiavandana, the Acting Head of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency, Muhammad Yusuf Ateh, and Cabinet Secretary, Teddy Indra Wijaya.

Meanwhile, the ranks of the young attorney general who attended the meeting at the Merdeka Palace today, namely the Deputy Attorney General for Intelligence, Reda Manthovanani, the Deputy Attorney General for Civil and State Administration, Narendra Jatna, the Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes, Asep Nana Mulyana, the Deputy Attorney General for Military Crimes, Major General Mokhamad Ali Ridho, and the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, February Ardiansyah.

After the meeting, Yustiavandana when met by a number of journalists at the Presidential Palace Complex, Monday afternoon, said that Prabowo gave many directions to the meeting participants. However, he was reluctant to mention further these directions.